if a judge orders a psychological report

[mrskc]

Hi if a judge orders a psychological report

And the report backs what the child is saying

How much weight would it carry in court?

When involved in a final hearing in family court

Even when the other side still says its all untrue

Sorry not much detail if you need more please ask.

[fredpuli47]

Do you mean statements of fact ? Nothing, if they're about what one party does! It happens all the time that one party has the child saying something or the child says something just to please one or the other.Depending on the age of the child, the court won't pay any attention to the child expressing a wish about who it wants to live with, either.The interests of the child are paramount.If the child was the judge of that , we wouldn't need court hearings !

[mrskc]

the court is trying to find fact..if the fact is found the other party would not be allowed to see the child.
party 1 is saying ......i have done nothing wrong the mother is putting all this in the childs head.

party 2 is saying no i am only carring out the childs wishes and the child is saying they dont want to go to party 1

so the judge ask for the psychologiset to report if the mother is invold ie telling the child what to say ....he said no shes not.
He has also said its all coming from the child.

[fredpuli47]

I stand by my original answer. Of course, the child says that the other party isn't putting ideas in it's head or promising things or anything of that sort.And it's probably saying how perfect things are with father (or mother) which may be true in the child's mind. It may find that one party is always allowing it to do things that the other forbids, or the other is the one who disciplines it or the first always takes to amusements or indulges its whims.And a child may say something it knows untrue, although it may not understand the significance or seriousness, and say bad things. Who knows? It's a child and what's more it's a child in a situation which is usually confusing to a child. A psychologist can say no more than that what the child told him or her, without other evidence to support him (not the other party's but something, some facts, which independently support the account). There's no fool- (or expert-) proof of whether a child is telling truth or fiction just from the child saying something and the court will not attach any weight to it. A statement " The child appeared truthful" or "to be telling the truth" is no help to any court, even if it were said by Sigmund Freud himself! And no expert can say "The child was truthful" or "was telling the truth" !
I very much doubt that the psychologist is being asked that question. He's being asked more general questions about how the child appears from a psychological standpoint, without attributing blame to one party or the other.The court may like to know whether the proceedings themselves or any conflict between the parties,, is causing the child severe stress or behavioural difficulties,for example

[momcj]

I think it would also depend on the age of the child? I think they need to be 11 or over for there consideration to be listened to? dont qoute me on that though.. But if it is to do with the child not having a relationship at all with the father and the father wants this, i think it is more difficult. the courts really push that a relationship with both parents is important. obviously when the child is 16 they can make up there own mind if they want to see there father or not.

how old is the child?

[maggs1703]

good luck and be very strong i have just been through something very similar